Sunsetting this Discourse

Good news: we will be sunsetting this Discourse and moving to the official Ubuntu Discourse. More information about this change and some background follows. The full announcement is here.

Quick links:

  • Go here for help and support.
  • Go here for any other discussion.

Be aware that we will be going read-only shortly.


For quite some time, Ubuntu has had its own Discourse instance. There is a Flavor category there with subcategories for all the flavors:

Well, that is, except for us. The reason why we have insisted on providing our own instance is because there has long been a policy of not providing support on the Ubuntu Discourse. Thankfully, that has changed:

This is all well and good for us as our own instance has proven to be a bit fragile. With this change, we should get more reliability, which will ultimately serve our users better.

So we are carving out a space there. Right now, you can find support via the Lubuntu tag in the Help & Support category:

You can also discuss Lubuntu in general (e.g. development) in the Lubuntu subcategory in the Flavor category:

Shortly, weā€™ll be setting this Discourse as read-only, so move your new topics over to the appropriate place above!

2 Likes

I kind of saw this coming when it was caught wind about how Ubuntu was changing how their instance would be used.

Itā€™s more or less the same for when Ubuntu had its older forum and there were like subforums or categories for the flavors carved out.

Oh well. At least itā€™s still gonna be Discourse for now. Time to dig up my Ubuntu One creds.

1 Like

It will be a better thing overall, especially when we consider support. There are many things in Lubuntu that donā€™t really need a Lubuntu expert to answer. Other folks can swoop in and help out.

1 Like

The move of this Discourse to the Ubuntu Discourse is good thing.

It coincides more or less with the following. A few days ago I have abandoned my last running Lubuntu laptop. After many years of using and following Lubuntu I moved on to other grounds. I will continue using LXQt for the foreseeable future, but not with Lubuntu. As I see it now, I will even trim down my LXQt experience, and stick only with the excellent file manager PCManFM-Qt, its terminal program and maybe the panel.

Now is a good moment for me to say goodbye. Iā€™ve certainly had fun here and learned a lot.

Good luck, and stay enjoying Lubuntu!

1 Like

I think thatā€™s all there is as far as LXQt is concernedā€¦ (re: FM and Qterminal). Itā€™s supposed to be light weight? I tried Debianā€™s version of LXQt (trixie) and the main menu isnā€™t installed on the panel by default (?), and no Wayland as in Lubuntu. The kde version does have Wayland, but, itā€™s no great shakes, some of the simplest graphics e.g. plotting widgets (Psensor), do not update automatically.

Unlike you though, I donā€™t like the Ubuntu Discourse. The organization is arbitrary (maybe Iā€™ll hang around in the ā€œLoungeā€ :roll_eyes:) and somewhat questionable imho and while there are more users (supposedly) I feel inhibited to ask questions or participate - based on the few responses I have received.

Maybe Iā€™ll go to Arch :slight_smile:. Iā€™ve read theyā€™re even more friendly there - no slight to Arch as I donā€™t have even anecdotal data on this - just what Iā€™ve read.

I donā€™t agree with all you say. Well, ofcourse, I do agree that FM and Qterminal (and maybe the panel application) are the key things of LXQt (which implies Lubuntu as well).

I think the guys who ā€˜moderateā€™ this discourse do a great job. Donā€™t forget, the Lubuntu project is a volunteer project. At least, I hope that everyone who is involved here, has a steady day job.

Their effort gives starters, who just try to escape the ridiculous costly hegemony of MS, with a far less good product (with bad performance and telemetry included) a good distribution for everyday use. Lubuntu is good enough, well polished, and yeah, if you need it and seek it, the project-people on this discourse are patient, and very willing to help! Both the people who took the effort to ask something, and the respondents, in general, treat other people with respect.

I am not part of the project, but from time to time I have put in some effort on this first discourse to shaken things up a bit. Seems that was necessary on this slow discourse. When the sun setting has been completed, the audience of the second discourse will be much larger. There will be more questions and responses. This does not mean that people who will be using the second discourse have the same manners. Change of subject.

For those former Lubuntu users (like you, I guess), Arch Linux is a good choice. In my opinion the best choice. But it all depends on your views of what a distro should offer. For almost everybody I know, Lubuntu would be the perfect replacement for Windows. Only if you do state of the art development which requires (almost) the most recent versions of FOSS software, perhaps Lubuntu (and Ubuntu, and Debian, and SUSE, and Slackware) will not be the best option.

So, Lubuntu is OK, but, considering, Arch with LXQt is absolutely OK. Unfortunately, my wife refuses to use Linux (I guess because some ten years ago I always had problems with printing and scanning). Her laptop is better than my laptop, and despite that, she is always complaining that ā€œWindowsā€ takes ages to update every time she logs in after a few days of idleness. She only needs the laptop for browsing and some spreadsheet work (yeah, MS, with license), but remains stubborn to switch.

Exactly for her, and millions of other people like her, Lubuntu would be perfect.

I use Arch, the Lubuntu artwork, Ubuntu fonts, Picom and Openbox, and my system looks and feels like the real thing (Lubuntu that is). And fortunately, ā€œLook Maahā€¦ no snapsā€. I donā€™t like snaps (and the business model behind it) or flatpaks, but for the majority of Lubuntu users snaps and paks are perfect.

Offside: if you need more convincing to use Arch, tell me :slight_smile: Iā€™ll help you if needed.

Yes, I agree. I was referring to ā€œUbuntu Discourseā€. Not, this Discourse (which is being sunset)ā€¦